Realities of phoneme practices at the semi-urban primary schools in Dhaka district

Abstract: This study intended to investigate how English phonemes are being taught and learnt by the teachers and students respectively at the primary level education in semi-urban area of Bangladesh. For this research, 45 students and 6 teachers purposively selected from three schools at semi-urban area in Dhaka district. Two sets of questionnaire were used to collect data from students and teachers of the semi-urban areas to explore their thinking or valuable opinions regarding the importance of learning and teaching English phonemes. Besides, three English classes (purposively taken) have been observed to shed light on the problems associated with teaching and learning English phonemes in the classroom faced by both the teachers and students. The findings have uncovered that both the teachers and students encounter many difficulties to teach and learn English phonemes respectively in their classroom. The study also concluded with some pedagogical suggestions to overcome those limitations. Keywords: English phonemes, pronunciation, teaching, learning, primary level education